On 4/14/2013 7:29 AM, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 13 April 2013, Joe Zeff sent: >> My guess is that your reference counts servers, because mine gets most >> of its numbers from webserver hit logs. > > Unless you can see access statistics from some very general purpose > website (i.e. one that everyone might use, like Google), as opposed to > the stats from specialist websites (web designers, Linux users), the > results are going to be horribly skewed. > > Over the years, I've watched the stats from my website, which isn't > really aimed at computer users, but I'd still never claim it to be > representative of the internet users on the whole. I've seen MSIE fall > off its perch, many years ago. It used to be about 85-90%, fell down to > about 65%, with the majority of the rest being Firefox, and things > evened out once we got a third player. > > So far, this month: > Browser Hits Percentage > Google Chrome 8,134 26.3 > MS Internet Explorer 6,950 22.5 > Firefox 6,822 22.1 > Safari 4,777 15.4 > Mozilla 1,198 3.8 > Android browser 1,086 3.5 > Opera 806 2.6 > Unknown 670 2.1 > LG (PDA/Phone browser) 92 0.2 > IPhone 84 0.2 > Others 239 0.7 > > Also, Windows is down considerably more than one might expect. > > So far, this month: > OS Hits Percent > Windows 19,555 63.3 > Macintosh 6,060 19.6 > Linux 3,454 11.1 > Unknown 1,403 4.5 > Java Mobile 203 0.6 > BlackBerry 76 0.2 > OS/2 30 0 > Java 23 0 > Symbian OS 17 0 > Unknown Unix 15 0 > Others 22 0 > > Every now and then there's some interesting things in the access logs, > like a C64. I'm not sure if someone's being humerous, or whether it the > actual device. I know it can do it, just whether anybody would actually > bother... > > In both sets of stats, it's supposed to have weeded out robots and only > acknowledged real users. Though who knows how successful it is at > weeding out the faked headers. > > I think that it's safe to say, that for a long time Windows will be > dominant, because it's foisted upon people. It's the true computer > user, or the seriously disgruntled user, who's going to try Linux. And > out of the disgruntled users, there will be those who'd rather pay for > Mac, or can't figure out how to do anything different for themselves. > > My take from this is that Linux is in about the right spot, though it's > not doing itself much good with some the current change in design > trends. There's no point being a clone. To change OSs, I want and need > an actual alternative. And unless you make an incredibly dumbed down > system, there's no point in trying to pick up the absolute masses of > clueless users. >
Statistics such as these? "OS Platform Statistics and Trends" <http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_os.asp> -- David -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
